FROM THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
Voters heard claims during the presidential campaign that the federal bureaucracy had been decreased by more than 300,000 people in the last eight years. Figures show there was actually a reduction of 325,877 since January 1993.
Unfortunately, the Defense Department's share was 283,801-a whopping 88 percent. Another 42,076 of this reduction came from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Jim Guirard, a government affairs consultant, points out that when we combine DoD and VA reductions, we see that the reduction in big government "has come out of the hides of the military and former military, and the civilian bureaucracy is just as big and intrusive as ever."
